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SNL’s New Discovery ID Show Is ‘White People Problems’

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Two friends get separated on a flight. A nursery school application is rejected. A woman ordering at Arby’s has no way of knowing if her food is local or not. These are “white people problems,” and Charles Barkley is hosting a new show on Discover ID that finally gives them their due. Each segment features Barkley as the host speaking with a black person who was at the scene of the “crime,” but it turns out in each instance they weren’t paying attention to the “Caucasian crises” on hand.

So far this episode Charles Barkley has only played Shaquille O’Neal and himself, so I was wondering if it would be an episode chock full of sports sketches or if he might put in his two appearances and basically disappear for the rest of it, but he acquitted himself well in this sketch. “That problem is so white, it should go snowboarding” is going a long way toward justifying his hosting gig to me, at any rate.

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  • Anonymous

    First we had lady chinky eyes and now this!?

    It’s tough being white in America with all this reverse racism!

  • Anonymous

    He needs to master the art of looking at the script without informing the TV audience. 

  • 12voltman1

    It’s called satire.

  • Misty Jean Moore

    The sad part is, white people really do think these are serious situations. 

  • Anonymous

    I smell a franchise!

  • Anonymous

    I was going to say, the most entertaining part of this mildly amusing sketch was watching Charles Barkley trying to read and talk.

  • Moderate

    If that was Larry Bird making jokes about black people’s problems, things would get really awkward.

  • Anonymous

    It is funny, but they mock him mercilessly about it on Inside The NBA. 
    My favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umkSmzILKU

  • us995

    the liberal meadia only calls it racism when it help them tell lies

  • Moderate

    Was what Don Imus did called satire?

  • 12voltman1

    It’s not satire if the person actually believes what he/she is saying.

  • Anonymous

    Frank Calliendo has Barkley down pat.

  • D P

    He seemed to be mocking rich snobby people who want good plane seats and organic chicken… it had nothing to do with white people… which just made it all the more ignorant and offensive… not that we expected anything more from this mentally challenged ogre.

  • Anonymous

    Is this a “white” thing or a class thing?

  • Anonymous

    Then it should’ve been called Rich people problems not white people problems.

    It was racist.

  • Hout Bosques

    No, that wasn’t satire; Imus made an attempt at irony, which on failing instantly dissembled into blunder.

    Blunder done right can work well as a form of humor (See: the premise of The Beverly Hillbillies; SNL: Two Wild & Crazy Guys; Steve Martin in The Idiot; every movie made by Harold Lloyd; most Charlie Chaplin movies; some movies by Buster Keaton; the Dumb & Dumber franchise of movies; Jerry Lewis, especially in The Nutty Professor), but Imus’ brand of humor depends on accepting that Imus is constantly hip & self-aware, features which are definitionally inconsistent with the premise for blunder. Imus’ brand of humor involves walking the reckless edge between biting & shocking, & that wasn’t the first time he’d lost his footing.http://library.thinkquest.org/J002267F/types_of_humor.htm

  • Anonymous

    I have seen other people besides white people do this.

    It seems like a class thing…unless you are a racist. and only see the person who you are dealing with as someone of a different race.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    In one of the incidents where someone put a derogatory thing on a receipt was a Latino worker who did it.

  • Hout Bosques

    I think Imus doesn’t believe very much at all of what he says.  

    A big part of his show involves picking up on the pet beliefs, peeves & prejudices of his call-in guests, mostly by way of feigning support & encouraging them to double down, hoping they’ll say something stupid, revelatory or at least controversial – whereupon he cracks wise. Ever since Palin failed the Couric Test, Republican pols who say things that make them look ignorant or stupid – IOW show who they really are – complain of “gotcha” questions, when mostly the question were not that at all; but call-in guests to Imus are dealing with one of the true masters of gotcha.

    He mostly does this to regular guests, who should expect it, or at least to New Yorkers, who should know better than to take him on. He’s actually gracious & solicitous with out-of-towners, because he’s not by nature a mean person, rather he plays one on radio.

  • Hout Bosques

    Absolutely. 

    The key is, I think, that Charles IS a walking situation comedy, his life is ALREADY a non-stop series of comedy sketches. If you ditched the idea of working from a script, & instead worked him up in a sketch the way Larry David does with the crew on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the stiffness would go away & CB would show more of his natural improv wit.

  • Hout Bosques

    You can’t be serious; if you are, you’re an idiot. But I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt & guess you tried your hand at comedy & it just didn’t work. Keep trying & remember your cliches: How do you get to Broadway? Rehearse. 90% of genius is effort. 99% of success is picking the right parents.

  • Anonymous

    @
    SSDeez   -  I understand why people like you are so actually and literally thin skinned – I think it best for you and others like you to stop holding on to your past of evil and wickedness – and start learning to LOVE ALL and not just some because they look like you.

    If you think that’s tough ? Try being unarmed and black in America – and gunned down by white cops – yet ? To this day – I have not seen one unarmed white – gunned down by white or black cops
    If you think that’s tough ? Try listening to people like you – who say America apologized for slavery for over 30 years – but America only apologized for slavery in 2008 – when Obama was impossible to beat – around June / July 2008.
    If you think that’s tough ? Try being black – training a white who is new on the job – to only find out – they will be replacing you – whilst you are demoted in pay and position.
    If you think that’s tough ? Try being black and getting LIFE IN PRISON – while a white with the same crime – gets a fine and probation.

    I could go on for days -  but I am sure – no one in your blood line ever owned slaves.
    BE BLESSED, HAPPY NEW YEAR and… I LOVE YOUand there is nothing you can do about that.

  • Anonymous

    hmmm …. In Iowa – 84% of the recipients on welfare are white  -whilst 9% are black.

    Yet … rick santorum feels a desperate need for blacks to get off welfare.
    Although whites had FREE WELFARE and HAND OUTS for over 400 years along with slavery and even after slavery – it’s clear – that there is so much hatred still against people in America – only because of their color.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
  • South Park Conservatives

    More racism from the left.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Try being black and getting LIFE IN PRISON – while a white with the same crime – gets a fine and probation.

    Please point out where this has happen. No b.s. please.

  • Anonymous

    #whitepeopleproblems was a hashtag started on twitter by white people. You’re old and dumb and out of touch. White people have been making these jokes for literally the last year, if anything SNL is late to the game.

  • Anonymous

    Stop playing the race card whitey, everyone is sick of it.

  • Anonymous

    So? Are Latino’s and Asians the same? lol, retard.

  • Anonymous

    Happens everyday unless you’re closing your eyes. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    A Charles Barkley skit on how Weight Watchers is a scam would have been funnier.

  • Anonymous

    This is racism by definition. Sorry lefties. If there were white people making light of “black” problems you would all be in up in arms and flipping out.

  • Anonymous

    it does not matter who started what. Racism is racism. What if there were white people on SNL doing Chris Rock type jokes about black people? Would you be ok with that since black people made the joke first? I don’t think so.

    Racism is racism. No matter which side it comes from. Now I could not care less because racism is only effective over another group if you let it. Some of this stuff is funny, and we should be able to laugh. The issue I have is with the selective outrage of the left. If the cast of characters were reversed in skin color, you would be posting about how racist it was and your disgust over it.

  • Anonymous

    You are absolutely right, and the hatred goes both ways….

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  • Henry Wood

    I could never have guessed that this little skit would elicit shrill overreactions from our white suprema…errr I mean “conservative” friends.

  • Anonymous

    I can not begin to imagine how empty lives must be for anyone on this board or
    anywhere that found THAT in anyway entertaining or amusing!
    Total stupid!!

  • Dirk

    There is no such thing as conservative humor.

  • Anonymous

    Its satire when its racist towards whites.  You racist.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you but it’s not “reverse racism”, it is just out and out racism.

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHA.  Lame!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Try being a white guy walking in a black neighborhood or driving a delivery rout in a black neighborhood. 

    Try being blamed for slavery even though my family wasn’t even in the country yet.

    Try being blamed for slavery while the fact that the  black Africans kidnapped there fellow blacks and sold them to the white slave traders is virtually ignored.  

    The more you ignore the “other side” the longer you will remain ignorant.  

  • Anonymous

    Harumph, harumph! Ahahaha!

  • Anonymous

    Oh brother – Put the race deck away lefties, it has been overplayed.

  • Anonymous

    Black People’s Problems:

    Was this Chicken fried in environmentally friendly grease?

    Was this water melon grown on a farm owned by Whitey?

    Was this instrument of music invented by Whitey? I’ll play ONLY musical instruments invented by blacks, because it is time the tam-tam drums get their due recognition.

    Why would Whitey call Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson  RACIST??

  • Anonymous

    Noooo, reaaaaally???

  • Anonymous

    I guess we should deport them amirite?

  • Anonymous

    There is no such thing as liberal intelligence.
    There is no such thing as liberal class.
    There is no such thing as liberal work ethic
    etc.

  • http://twitter.com/BlueSaboteur Rob Leon

    According to govt stats, Whites form the largest racial group on welfare.   There goes your Right-Wing talking points.  

  • Anonymous

    U mad???

  • South Park Conservatives

    Yet no one can list a example.

  • SNAPTIE: “Dump Soetoro 2012 “

    Not if you break it down by the percentage using demographics. Around 35% of african americans are on welfare per capita
    around 13.5% of Caucasians are on welfare per capita
    around 29% of Hispanic Americans are on welfare per capita
    around 19.5% of asian americans are on welfare per capita.
    the rest is miscellaneous.

  • Anonymous

    If only blacks can use the N word than only whites can make joke about white people.

  • Anonymous

    Is that total numbers or by percentage?  What percentage of whites are on welfare and what percentage of blacks?  

  • Anonymous

    But that’s all they have.

  • Anonymous

    Nope….we are too busy working to support the liberals.

  • Anonymous

    That comment was in response to a comment that appears to have been removed.  

  • Anonymous

    I heard Charles say a few years back when he was thinking of getting into politics he was a Republican. But I guess the party has moved too far to the right for Chuck to included in the party of Tea baggers these days.

  • Anonymous

    I figured that was the case since Rob seemed to leave that out.

  • Anonymous

    So,you’re the victim?

  • Anonymous

    Not the same crime but……worse.

    WHITE - Former four term Pennsylvania Congressman Thomas W Druce, who is serving a two to four year sentence for the hit and run death of 42-year-old Kenneth Cains on July 27, 1999, wants out early. Druce almost got away with the hit and run, after secretly having his vehicle repaired, until a mysterious letter showed up at a local media outlet, revealing what had happened. Finally, in September 2000, Druce pled guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident, tampering with evidence and insurance fraud. But after a few weeks in prison, he was allowed out during an appeal. So for 3-1/2 years, Druce lived a normal life, with a curfew that required him to ask permission to be out of his house between 10 pm at night and 6 am in the morning. Finally, in May of this year, Druce was ordered back to his minimum security prison to begin serving the sentence.
    Now Druce wants credit for those 8 hours he had to spend home at night the last 3-1/2 years as time served toward his sentence!

    http://www.deadlyroads.com/believeitornot.html

    BLAH – The Drug War Chronicle reports that pressure is building for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to commute the sentence of Tyrone Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison for smoking pot. In 1990, when he was 17, Brown took part in a $2 robbery in which the victim was not physically injured, a crime for which he received 10 years of probation. A few weeks later, he tested positive for marijuana, and the judge not only revoked his probation but inexplicably resentenced him to a life term.  

    http://reason.com/blog/2006/12/15/puzzle-for-the-governor-is-lif 

  • Anonymous

    You are absolutely correct: None of the FACTS you so ably compiled is racist.

    Like Joe Friday said: Just the facts!

  • Anonymous

    You should look into having a sense of humor, would help you live a happier life.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Idiots like you make me embarrassed to be white.

  • Anonymous

    Oh so now it’s more offensive and ignorant to mock rich people? Last I knew, SNL had writers. I’m quite sure Barkley did not write this skit. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Burt-Fisher/100001081550703 Burt Fisher

    But the joke is long over.  Just like recess in 3rd grade, it’s time to get back to class.  Unfortunately, niggers are late to the game and later getting back.  They still think it’s a game (basketball, football, acting, rapping, dancing with the stars, shooting, raping, killing, denying paternity on Maury, and such games).

  • Anonymous

    If it’s not funny, it’s not satire, it’s just sarcasm.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently, some of you do not watch much comedy stand up routines or else you would know that there are comics of all colors and stripes that make fun of blacks, latinos, whites, women, men, rich, poor, christians, jews, muslims, I could go on, but I hope you catch the drift. Turn off Fox. Take the stick out of your butts, let your hair down and watch a little comedy. Trust me the world won’t come to an end if you do. The reason comedy is funny is there is (at least a bit of) truth in the jokes. 

    Mediaite baited and you racists bit. 

  • Anonymous

    That isn’t satire? What if that remark was prefaced by saying, this is a work of satire, would you buy it? Is the message any less demeaning and racist if you hide behind the word, satire.

  • Anonymous

    There’s nothing reversed about it. It’s straight up racism cloaked in satire.

  • Anonymous

    Or, he’d show us just how stupid he really is. It’s a 50/50 proposition.

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    That’s an idiotic comparison to make. White people can have jokes about black people that don’t revolve around tired stereotypes and slurs. Except people like you base your ENTIRE VIEWPOINTS off of those stereotypes and slurs. I didn’t hear anything ‘racist’ said about white people in that skit because guess what? IT WAS WRITTEN BY WHITE PEOPLE!!!

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    It must be racist…you know, white people HATE each other. You realize white people wrote this right?

  • Anonymous

    The sad part is, Black people think these are serious White situations. Why do you think that is?  

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle didn’t write this…Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Taran Killam, and others did. Try again dummy

  • Anonymous

    You had it right in the first time. Conservatives are superior both in character and in reasoning.
    The reason I can say that is, I read your remarks!

  • Anonymous

    It was SNL’s Obamaism.

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    Ever consider that maybe these cases don’t get notoriety, thus making them harder to come across. I do know about people like Gregory Taylor…a homeless man who broke into a bread kitchen to try and eat sentenced to life. Or how about Darnell Wilson sentenced to life for stealing bras in Mississippi? Meanwhile, Winona Rider was caught on camera and never spent a day in the joint. As myopic as you want to be, that’s the freakin’ tip of the iceberg. The system is disproportionate…

    The US has seen a surge in arrests and putting people in jail over the
    last four decades. Most of the reason is the war on drugs. Yet whites
    and blacks engage in drug offenses, possession and sales, at roughly
    comparable rates – according to a report on race and drug enforcement
    published by Human Rights Watch in May 2008. While African Americans
    comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of monthly drug users they are
    37% of the people arrested for drug offenses – according to 2009
    Congressional testimony by Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    Exactly. The police stop blacks and Latinos at rates that are much higher than
    whites. In New York City, where people of color make up about half of
    the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. When
    whites were stopped, only 8% were frisked. When blacks and Latinos are
    stopped 85% were frisked according to information provided by the NYPD.
    The same is true most other places as well. In a California study, the
    ACLU found blacks are three times more likely to be stopped than
    whites.

  • Anonymous

    Would those numbers reflect the White/Black percentages of citizens in that state? Why didn’t you use California? Different outcome?

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    Racism…wow you guys are too much. The same people who said PROFILING wasn’t racist are now trying to say that comedy based on cultural differences is? Amazing! Conservatives will do anything to devalue the plight of blacks in America…anything. But this is low, even for this group. It was written by white people!

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    Haha…amazing. Just like I said already. So why aren’t you shooting down your brethren making an SNL skit written by white comedians out to be some Mt. Rushmore of racism against whites? Yeah, that’s what I thought you hypocrite.

  • http://twitter.com/2ndclarence CJ Baldwin

    So white people are racist against themselves now huh? Why can’t any of you dummies address the fact that this skit was written by white people?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Are you a Moron in real life, or just play one on the internets?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Republicans cant even BUY a sense of humor.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    HAHAHA.  STUPID!!!!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Republicans are NOT funny.
    You take it a step farther into stupidity.

  • SouthernYankee

    Imus is old news. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson
  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Dim Wit.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    I wonder why.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You get worse by the day.
    You should seek help.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    This is why they are called (R)egressives.

  • Anonymous

    The hatred does not go both ways EQUALLY ….

    there are 100′s of white hate groups in America – who show and speak out their hate for blacks.I doubt you can name 2 black groups that speak their hatred against whites.Please don’t use deceptions, lies and trickery in your response.

  • Anonymous

    Instead of going state by state ? Let’s talk about THE WHOLE OF AMERICA.

    Stop the nit picking and deceptions ….

    37.8% white* (37.8% of the white population is on welfare) 

    27.78% black* (27.78% of the black population is on welfare) 

    11.47% Hispanic* ** (11.47% of the Hispanic population is on welfare) 
    This is a very close APPROXIMATION of today in America …..
    So many are talking against blacks on welfare ….
    even blacks – who I deal with who are trying to help get blacks off welfare.

    but you hardly hear anyone speaking against whites on welfare.
    Specially since so many whites had 400+ years of welfare through slavery.

  • Anonymous

    and if you notice …. blacks don’t hate back the way whites do.

    the majority of blacks still attempt and try to get along ….

  • Anonymous

    Mad about what ? I have nothing to be angry, jealous or mad about …. I have GOD all through my life and I know THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE YES AND AMEN !!!

  • Anonymous

    @ brdad ??? I’ve never met or talked to one white person
    who has EVER admitted their family owned slaves – most say justwhat you said ……

  • Anonymous

    With slightly over 12% of citizens, Nation wide being Black, that is an abysmal number.
    How much has American slavery added to the welfare number in 2012?  Can you cite the slavery welfare numbers? You are aware that slavery ended nearly 150 years ago aren’t you? Why don’t you think hardly anyone speaks negatively about White people on welfare?

  • Anonymous

    your answers are below – from others .. who also know THE WHOLE TRUTH …. unlike many – like yourself who only know the hole truth …

    BIG DIFFERENCE …. but also ? Feel Free … to look up
    Barron Pikes – Oscar Grant – Melvin Williams in Georgia gunned down by a cop who didn’t even have the power of arrest ….

    And PLEASE DO NOT forget Raymond Herisse – shot over 100 times.
    No cop said …. get out the car with your hands up …. NO.
    they just laid 100+ bullets at him …. 

    I know you wouldn’t understand – because you seem to be a conservative.
    and right wingers lack blacks – because of attitudes like yours …

  • Anonymous

    BOOO YAH …. I bet someone will VANISH now ….

    Thanks for posting that WHOLE TRUTH .. and not the hole truth ….

  • Anonymous

    so …. you are saying that SNL and Charles Barkley are what ?

  • Anonymous

    Not much.

  • Anonymous

    Die confederate DIE.. LOL.. no seriously.

  • Anonymous

    LIVE AMERICAN LIVE! LOL no seriously LIVE.. but be aware, CONFEDERATES where never “ended”.. they reproduce and go to .. we websites and post crazy stuff about reverse racism.. cuz it is such a real thing.. really. I think Charles Barkley did a sketch about some of the issues.. -YES, folks these are JOKES.. a phrase we are waiting for the head of the NEW GOP to announce before the next debate.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    How about a channel by blacks called “The Non-Discovery Channel?” That’d be funny and true.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    That problem is so black, it should go skimming through a watermelon pearly whites first. How does that grab America?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    It was more satirical than a member of Jamie Foxx’s radio team making racial and vulgar comments about an underage Myley Cyrus.

  • Anonymous

    RIGHT!

  • Anonymous

    Just how are you equating slavery with Whites being on welfare? How far will you spin this to make it appear racist? Seems to me 350,000 White boys dying to stop slavery more than paid the restitution, don’t you! I sure as hell do!! Which leads me to believe this is not about slavery but a made up justification for not reaching your potential.

  • Anonymous

    @caconservative – Did you know slaves were found in the late 60′s in America ?
    Did you know slaves were found in Webb, Mississippi in 2008 … on a large property owned by whites and ran by whites ? again …. Media hides this – because of the fear of retaliation. Blacks just want to be FREE and to be TREATED EQUALLY.
    Without all the hatred against them for the color of their skin.

    slavery ended on paper – not physically, mentally and spiritually.

    WARNING …. DO NOT converse with me and / or correct me with deceptions, evil, lies, trickery and wickedness.
    “”How much has American slavery added to the welfare number in 2012?”"

    PLENTY – because Main Stream Media, Government, Prisons, Judicial Systems, and Law Enforcement Systems are ALL ran by whites at the top ….. no equality in the heads of these organizations.

    Whites are still allowed to discriminate and hate – and not hire blacks – and gun down unarmed blacks and plant drugs on blacks and send them to prison.

    Whites still get less time for the same crime as blacks.
    Black kills a white – black goes to jail a long time.
    White kills a blacks – whites goes to jail a very short time – or not at all.

    “”  Can you cite the slavery welfare numbers?”"

    SURE … every white who owned slaves was on welfare – at the expense of black slaves in America. Those records are either confidential or destroyed.
    kkk killings - confidential or destroyedwhites falsely accusing blacks and sending blacks to prison and killing them
     - confidential or destroyed  

    “” You are aware that slavery ended nearly 150 years ago aren’t you?”"slavery ended on paper – not physically, mentally and spiritually.  ”"Why don’t you think hardly anyone speaks negatively about White people on welfare?”"whites control the media

  • Anonymous

    I don’t use the r word – I replace it with what it is.

    evil and /or wicked.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GD2KOUAEPPTRIFDS76CMG6PBLU Gonzo55

    The Couric test? Really? LMFAO…. The Couric Test.. OMFG… How far have we sunk when someone look to Katie Couric to “test” someone..

  • Anonymous

    One set of grandparents came over from Ireland and the other from Italy in the early 1900′s.  

    The truth is a very small percentage of families owned slaves so the odds of asking that question of someone who’s family did own slaves is pretty slim.  There were also black families who owned slaves….but again very low percentage so odds of meeting one is even smaller.  I’m not sure what your point is though.

  • Anonymous

    What trials did your ancestors have to go through where you deserve the right to cry “racism” in a country of predominantly white people? Huh? White people HAD slaves.. and you’re acting like we’re some attacked minority, get a grip you’re so far off course, I wonder if you have any clue.

    How has your live been effected by white racism exactly?

  • Anonymous

    thank you so much for standing up and calling this bs reverse racism out. btw the term reverse racism is racist in itself lol – do you agree. I think it implies a double standard- I could go on but again thank you so much monty_python

  • Anonymous

    very rude man – and it wasn’t my post but I am proud to be white and I hope you are proud to have whatever skin tone you have. The poster   was not freaking out, he was only stating his opinion and I agree with his point. People of other races may be raising hell about this if the joke was at their expense. I do not know it this is what the poster was trying to get across, but I think he may agree with me in asking for a bit more respect for as you so eloquently put it “whitey” on the public stage.  I do not allow people’s bs to make me feel as though I am walking on egg shells when it comes to any race issue because I am white; however, you may not be aware of this, but many of the people that I encounter do feel that way.   

    We want the double standard thrown out- so we can all poke fun at each other equally lol jk

  • Anonymous

    lmfao – wow. you clearly have a serious case of Racism and I don’t throw that around easily because I feel as though that label is tossed around far too often and for far too little reason. I will not continue because I am sure that your pent up HATE (try and disguise it with love as much as you want) will not be swayed by my comment.

  • Anonymous

    good point- i hadn’t looked at it that way

  • Anonymous

    Come on, really I mean come on. WOW

  • Anonymous

    So am I not your brethren? Your praise the Lord yet  - do not consider Whiter your brethren. What happened to created equal

  • Anonymous

    Wow a lot of these posts show not only racism but political hate. We tend to call things racist far too easily but the point is that this skit demonstrates how easy it is for jokes to made at the expense of white people. Look I can laugh at myself and often do, but there is a double standard here and a bit more respect or less sensitivity from other races would be refreshing period. Also, it is obvious that the people who disagree on this thread would be sounding the storm sirens if the skit were about them (just look at how defensive they are when a white person expresses discontent with a prejudice skit- they will never think that anything said about white folks could be racist) 

  • Anonymous

    First, prove it. IDK why you assume that there was no black writer involved with this. 
    Second, it doesn’t make a difference if it was because the censors allowed it. If it were about blacks the censors would have shot it down

  • Anonymous

    sounds to me like he is- don’t you feel like a victim when the stereotypes that are held against your skin tone affect your daily life when they are unjustified.?

  • http://twitter.com/1972patriot Kerri Hudson

    You are absolutely correct. I watched and laughed at SNL’s skit because it was funny but the whole time I was thinking what if the roles were reversed… oh, and how much I miss Dave Chappelle. 

    The black community deals with such little racism that it emboldens the angry ones among them to feel empowered and uncivil. Some among them act in a way that they used to be treated before they had rights.

    I thought the segregation thing was about equality. Wasn’t that Dr. King’s dream? For all men to be judged on their character and not the color of their skin? 

    For all intents and purposes it appears that blacks want hand outs and power not equality. If that is not their intent then the black community should consider changing their leadership to reflect their goodwill.

    I love the following video because it is a living testament of how racism has disenfranchised the black man featured in it to the point of getting his rear end handed to him by an old white man. 

    Racism is BS. It is a term coined by those who have heavy hearts, bad attitudes and evil intent.

  • http://twitter.com/1972patriot Kerri Hudson

    What is it with your strange confederacy affixation? Catch up on your history, buddy. Democrats led the confederacy over a century ago. Holds no bearing on politics today unless you would like to properly observe that Democratic leaders are still today enslaving their populace.

  • Anonymous

    You can’t be serious. The “small government” GOP Used big government to free slaves and force federal programs on the country (yesterday). Democrats called the GOP the ni**er loving party (yesterday). My fixation on anything “confederate” is simple: They live, the fight for the rights of their fallen ancestors who are the only folks to physically attack the USA other than obvious external enemies, they happily fly their flag at times above the flag of the USA… My fixation is that there are too many people like you who immediately toss out a party name and past history as if yesterday has anything to do with today, which I there’s tingly it does.. But only if you are smart about the spots on which leopard you are interested in watching out for. The GOP is the favorite party of “the blacks” not more than 50 years ago (yesterday). Times change and parties change. Yesterday the GOP president was accused of “class warfare” for saying everyone should be taxed similar in proportion to their wealth. Today a democratic president is accused of the same.. I like making sure it is clear that the confederacy lives and fights for is air because it was never put to rest (kinda like Germans revisit their nazi past regularly to snuff out Neo-nazis..
    -in the end.. I just like watching the chaos.

  • Anonymous

    I’m so sorry. Could you cite the facts regarding your allegations. I’ve looked, and I can’t seem to find anything supporting your misrepresentation of the facts. That would be appreciated by all. Again, thanks.
    By the way, if not, then STFU!!

  • Anonymous

    Who has the highest rates of crime?

  • http://twitter.com/1972patriot Kerri Hudson

    I found it hard to follow your comment… Although I am sure that I was responding to you immediately tossing out a party name and past history as if yesterday has anything to do with today.

    I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican, nor am I a member of the confederate. I am an American minority who does not embrace idiots who harbor hate. I am an American that will fight everyone, including you, to preserve my birth rights and traditions. 

    Lastly, you said, “I like making sure it is clear that the confederacy lives and fights for is air because it was never put to rest.” 

    Whatever. How are you being threatened by the confederates? I suggest you spend more concern on illegal Mexican aliens being allowed to fly their Mexican flag over an American capital building last year. Like it or not, those confederates you apparently fear were born with birth rights, as well. 

  • Anonymous

    I am with you regarding the Mexican flag thing. I’m with you on no party affiliation. I guess I’m kinda with you.. Because I’m also into no hate and the freedoms adults should have to do as they please if bringing no harm to others.
    I only brought up the rambling “party stuff” because the names of the parties have remained the same but that does not mean the philosophies have not.

  • Anonymous

    no it was called STUPID…Imus repeated what someone else said in the room and tried to raise his hipness level and it backfired he used to be funny in the 70′s..like Dennis Miller….everybody cant be a comedian

  • Anonymous

    he shoots he scores

  • Anonymous

    why would whites wanna use the N word?
    thats like saying i wanna set my self on fire..cause the human torch does it

  • http://twitter.com/1972patriot Kerri Hudson

    I believe there is a grave misconception of ‘why’ Southerner’s refuse to give up their Confederate flag. It is most certainly a symbol of their heritage, where they came from and how far they have come from that. To refuse them of their flag is to refuse them of their rightful identity. 

    The stigma of the Civil War being fought over slavery is misleading. The war was fought when eleven states seceded from the Union. They lawfully had the right to do so to protect their sovereignty and constitutional rights.

    Read the Ordinances of Secession of the 13 States to conclude why the Southern states sought secession: http://www.civil-war.net/pages/ordinances_secession.asp

    It would bring people closer to the truth if they would reject this misconception & realize that the Confederate flag is not a symbol of enslavement in the minds that honor it. 

    Take a moment and think. At the time the Union forced their beliefs on the Confederacy, slavery was a common practice across the country. Yes, the Confederacy losing to the Union did lead to equality but we only have the luxury of knowing that now a century later. These gray soldiers were not savage animals. They were doing what they felt they must do to protect their homes and families from an invasion. Many of them treated and cared for their slaves as family.
    The Confederacy at one time pledged allegiance to The Confederate States of America. The United States Oath of Citizenship declares that to become a naturalized citizen one must entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.

    Southerner’s are not pledging allegiance to the Confederate flag, they are honoring those who came before them that sacrificed their lives to protect their God given rights and their families, not slavery.

    The difference between the Confederate flag and the Mexican flag is so obvious it… The Mexican flag is a foreign flag. Furthermore, there still exists a country of Mexico to pledge allegiance to. The Confederacy can only offer you pictures and words in a history book. There is not an American alive today that was a citizen of The Confederate States of America.

    Citizenship Oath
    http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/oathofcitizen.htm 

    I believe that the majority of Americans divided by smoke from the DC machine agree that the principles of our founding fathers have never been in need of implementing more than that do right now. American’s are far more tolerant than politicians are comfortable with which is why they keep us in crisis mode.

    There are those who will argue that Obama has the right to infringe on the constitutional rights of Americans as Abe Lincoln did to the confederacy for the greater good of the people. That argument would be plausible if Obama was supported by the majority of Americans as Honest Abe was. It is more clear everyday that he will never garner that kind of support.

    We have more in common than I initially would have ever guessed. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my views on this perplexing topic. We all expect this topic to surface when reading articles like this and I hope I offered a different perspective.
    God bless you , ricciricci. 

  • Anonymous

    What do your comments even mean? Just a bunch of random nonsense and generalizations about “black neighborhoods”… yikes, this kind of stuff actually is racism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UVCUTQ7W2F7R6MBXMGFUHRXRAY Marta

    Yes! Racism against black people is real and certainly exists and it’s wicked and shameful.  Is the solution to feed hatred between whites and blacks?  This kind of humor only deepens divides that should not exist.  Racism should be treated seriously.

  • Anonymous

    glad you pointed that out. So few people seem to forget that the the republican party freed the slaves with Mr. Lincoln as their first party member in the white house
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimhunt James Hunt

    Charles Barkley is probably the whitest of them all.

  • Anonymous

    you know exactly what my point is – the fact that you are a deceiver ? There’s no use in me casting pearls for you to get all muddy.

  • Anonymous

    PROVE IT – “”QUOTE”" the statements that PROVE your lies against me.

  • Anonymous

    WHICH FACTS do you want ? I have them ALL …..
    although you are full of demonic spirits …. under strong delusion and have a reprobate mind ?

    I am still willing to POST FACTS, PROOFS, TRUTHS and Personal Experience – along with MUCH AUDIO and VIDEO.

    I’m sure you won’t reply – because evil hated THE TRUTH.

  • Anonymous

    caconservative asked a question …”"Who has the highest rates of crime?”" 
    What Race kills The Most ?What Race steals The Most ?What Race destroysThe Most ?the white race – don’t forget to add in 2 atomic bombs, holocaust, 
    The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10BOOO YAH !!!

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